Up the Junction
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 First edition | |
| Author | Nell Dunn |
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| Illustrator | Susan Benson |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | MacGibbon & Kee |
Publication date | 1963 |
| Publication place | UK |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover and Paperback) |
| Pages | 110 pp (Hardcover edition) & 112 pp (paperback edition) |
| OCLC | 17230966 |
Up the Junction is a 1963 collection of short stories by Nell Dunn that depicts contemporary life in the industrial slums of Battersea and Clapham Junction.[1]
The book uses colloquial speech, and its portrayal of petty thieving, sexual encounters, births, deaths and back-street abortion provided a view of life that was previously unrecognised by many people. The book won the 1963 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize.
Adaptations
[edit | edit source]In 1965 it was adapted for television by the BBC as part of The Wednesday Play anthology series directed by Ken Loach.[2]
A cinema film version followed in 1968 with a soundtrack by Manfred Mann.[3]
The television version of the play was the inspiration for the 1979 Squeeze hit "Up the Junction".[4]
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